In version 4, I tried to create my own "layers" through a workaround. The app built "layers" in the order items were created - so, for example, if I drew an object in one color, then a different type of object over top of it in another, the second object would be "on top" of the first. If I wanted to switch the layering of those objects, I would just select the first object, cut it, then paste it and it would then move to the top. It appears as those version 5 has removed the ability to do this?

Please add!!! Also ability to deselect layers.

My problem is the layers work sometimes the way I need them then the exact opposite a second later. Is there a way to control this? It worked a second ago I can even return o the previous work and see that it was functioning to my needs. !!! Please help

Yes please

Have the ability to write on a second sheet that is superimposed on the page as a layer.
This would make it possible to add elements on the layer, for example text on an image, and to be able to manipulate them easily.

I'd like the ability to lock a "layer" of text, or image. Ex: if I draw a line to make sections on my paper, I'd like to lock it to the page so if I write or paste an image over it, it stays locked if I need to erase later. I'd want to have the ability to unlock if necessary as well.

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Yes please to layers! That is all!

Great feature if it comes!

Would love to have the use of Layers!

Please add layers with opacity!
This will Aid drafting.

As a musician who likes to study musicial compositions having the ability to add or remove layers on top of layers would be very useful.

Layers would be useful when playing with ideas. The ability to put different ideas on different layers could help organize concepts based on their “stability”. For example a layer with unresolved questions so that it can be independently manipulated or erased without affecting the underlying notes/sketches.

Yes! Use layer would be great. Please add!!!

Allow layers when writing on notes so you can show with or without various layer.

This sounds like a great idea for a different app. If you add layers please make it under a different, more complicated app, and keep Goodnotes uncomplicated.

In addition to my college notebooks, I also use GN for art sketching. GN's powerful, lag-free vector ink is more responsive and accurate than any other drawing app I have tried, including Tayasui Sketches, Adobe Illustrator Draw and SketchBook. Most of the drawing apps are actually rasters, meaning that you can't scale them without loss of quality. Those that use vector have a noticeable lag, or the strokes aren't as clear as GN. I have copied my drawings to Affinity Designer in my laptop and was able to seamlessly further modify them. For those of us using GN as a sketchbook, adding layers would allow the line drawing to be on one layer, and the colors on another layer(s). Also, one could import an image on the lower layer and trace on the upper layer, and then delete the image, keeping the drawing. Layers would also have the many applications other users have stated in terms of text notebook use.

After 4 years, I still waiting for layers :(

It would make GN much much more valuable if layering is adopted.

First of all, thank you for this good app.

I support this idea.
This would be very helpful for drawings as one could separate e.g. a diagram from the text.
I would like to have something like this:
1. layer - draw a box
2. layer - add some text comments
3. layer - color the area of the box
In case I decide for a other color or I need to change the text - the drawing would be save.
This would speed up the working with goodnotes.